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It is with great sadness that the Centre’s Deputy Director – Professor Philip Dewe announced his retirement from the Centre and from Birkbeck, University of London

Dr Magdalena Marczak presented a talk entitled A qualitative exploration of the statutory and voluntary bodies’ involvement in cyberbullying prevention and management in the UK at the XXth Workshop Aggression, University of Applied Sciences, Upper Austria in Linz.

In August 2015, Dr Juliet Hassard appeared on BBC World News as part of the weekly Business Report. She was invited to comment on an article published in the Times, which examined the growing trend among businesses to make increased use of mobile forms of fitness technology (e.g., FitBit, Vivofit, etc) in the workplace as a way in which to support employee health and decrease sickness absence.

Successful PsyPAG workshop on using secondary data in psychology research.

During the recent EUOSHA Healthy Workplace Campaign Summit in Bilbao, the Summit honoured the memory of Dr Eusebio Rial-González. Seb was a friend of Centre, and Professor Tom Cox had the privilege of delivering Seb’s eulogy during the Summit.

Dr Magda Marczak will be representing CSWL at the XXth Workshop Aggression, dedicated to Future Challenges of Aggression Research, to be held at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, from the 20th to the 21st of November.

As part of the METIS Collaboration, CSWL will be working on a new NHS research grant understanding the hard choices made by working women with breast cancer between treatment compliance and working on clinical versus economic survival.

CSWL contribute new articles on psychosocial risks towards the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work's OSH Wiki project.

Dr Magda Marczak will be representing CSWL at the 5th European Network for Social and Emotional Competence Conference, dedicated to Social Emotional Learning and Culture, to be held at the University of Lisbon, Portugal from the 1st to the 4th of July.

Dr Sara MacLennan, who helped found The METIS Collaboration, has been awarded an Honorary Research Fellowship by Birkbeck University of London to support her work with the Centre for Sustainable Working Life (CSWL). She is the first Honorary appointment made by the College to CSWL.